Saul Anuziz just tweeted that today's election was the biggest KY GOP primary turnout ever.
Randslide!
lol, that's the same guy that wanted to ban Ron Paul from future GOP debates back in early 2007.
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Yea, Kentucky!!
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It is, but the Michiganders reached out to him ASAP and fixed that relationship. He's an ok guy.
All I have is the twitter
Kentucky Primary Results with 98.0% reporting: Paul 58.9% vs Grayson 35.4% - On to the Senate w/largest GOP turnout ever!RT @angelatc: @sanuzis Really? The largest GOP turnout in KY? // yup-that's what they just reported. 39 minutes ago via TweetDeck
i hadnt thought of that angle.
that's gooooood. i think you're right. just as ron paul helped get Rand some national attention, now Rand can help Ron get some more mainstream attention and, more importantly, serious consideration!
TAG TEAM!
if kentucky is such a conservative state, why did the dems have such a large turnout?
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They won't need to because all of the candidates are going to co-opt his platform.
Conservative Dems, more registered Dems than Republicans, but in state wide and federal races they tend to vote Republican.
In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.
more registered democrats than republicans. we have a democratic governor, and its always a highly contested, close race. we generally vote republican in federal elections, though.
KY is full of the dying breed of conservative democrats. you know, the ones Obama is helping to alienate so well.
so they vote for a dem in the primary and then vote for a republican in the general? interesting..
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There are a lot of southern Dems who just haven't come over to the GOP side
You still see it to some degree in TN too
Southern Dems are closer to Republicans than they are to Obama
Most Southern Dems I know are pro-2nd amendment, pro-life, anti-Washington
we have closed primaries. they have to vote in the democratic primary.
also, in my county (Floyd) there were ZERO Republican candidates running for local office. ZERO. I voted ONLY for the US Senate because I am registered Republican. That's really, really discouraging to people that would otherwise vote for a Republican.
I mean, national politics are important, but so is electing a sheriff, a magistrate, a constable, and a county judge executive, etc. etc. People like having a vote.
that being said, i think open primaries are really silly.
I will argue that open (or semi-open) primaries are NOT silly. They are actually more representative of the voice of the voters.
I don't care if my aldermanic candidate CLAIMS to be R or D, I just care that they will do their job and not stick an R or D after their name in order to get more votes. Same with Magistrate, constable, dog catcher, school board, etc. That is a LOCAL issue, and who knows those candidates better than the locals? (I've seen some former-Massachusetts Democrats move to New Hampshire, change their party affiliation to Republican and get elected, but I've also seen plenty who were sent packing. And you can count on plenty more who claim to be Republican to be given walking papers in the next two years, because they have been stacking the deck since 2006...)
Here in New Hampshire, we have a somewhat "open" primary system. I am an "Undeclared" voter (AKA Independent), and as such, I do not have to re-register or change my party affiliation by some arbitrarily-set date months before a primary.
I walk in to my precinct, give my name/address to the poll worker. They see that I am Undeclared/independent, and ask me which way I will vote for the Congress/Presidential primary. I can select R or D- but no matter who else I am also voting for in that election, that is their benchmark. They hand me a blue or red slip of paper, and mark which way I chose to vote for the major race. Then I go into the booth and vote. I have the option of voting for ANY of the candidates, regardless of their claimed political party. Also, write-in candidates are pretty popular.
After I vote, I walk over to another poll worker's table and fill out a very short form to re-affirm my Undeclared/Independent status. In over 10 years, neither my spouse nor I- nor any of our friends or neighbors- have had any problems with this system.
I think all states should adopt this very simple primary voting method. 40% of New Hampshire voters are Undeclared, and all across the country, statewide party affiliation percentages are rapidly approaching this.
Closed primaries only sweeten the pot and stack the deck for the ESTABLISHMENT thugs to grind their heels into our foreheads. We've all seen firsthand how that works out. This is the time for the Independent voter to make their vote count- because the political machine, for now, only "allows" R's and D's to have the stage.
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It goes back to the invasion of the South to prevent independence in the 1860's. After that the Yank Republicans began to screw the South as as much as they could, and so there was a lot of resentment, thus most Southerners are Democrats even though they are conservative. The idea of being a Democrat has been passed down through generations. Fortunately though the Dems in the South tend to be more conservative than liberal.
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More ballots were cast in yesterday's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Kentucky than in the Republican, but the total number of votes cast masks a stunning turnaround in the state's historical turnout patterns.
Several bloggers (see examples here, here and here) have argued that Rand Paul's easy victory in the Republican primary may not mean much come November given the lower number of voters in the Republican contest. But such an analysis overlooks essential historical context. (Some also miss the critical fact that Democrats outnumber Republicans in the state by about 600,000 voters.)
According to data from Kentucky's Board of Elections, in no state primary going back to 1982 did Republican turnout top Democratic turnout, until this year.
At last update, 34 percent of registered Republicans and 32 percent of registered Democrats cast ballots yesterday. In contrast, in primaries since 1982, Democratic turnout has outpaced Republican turnout by an average 10 percentage points, with the narrowest Democratic advantage standing at 2.5 percentage points in the 2007 gubernatorial primaries. The largest gap was a whopping 29 percentage points in 1983.
Of course, the Democrats' edge in primary vote turnout hasn't always turned into an advantage in November, so this result doesn't translate directly into an edge for the Republicans this time, but it is a sharp deviation from nearly 30 years of voting statistics.
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My grandparents were southern Dems and held some very conservative positions
Lot of Southern Dems are Baptists (pro-life) and pro-2nd Amendment.
They also hate the Barack Obama/Nancy Pelosi wing of the Dem party
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